New Delhi: Twitter on Thursday, confirmed that two senior executives are being fired. It has paused most hiring. This comes as Elon Musk stands poised to become the global messaging platform’s new owner.
Twitter spokesperson speaking with AFP said that Kayvon Beykpour, a general manager who leads research, design and engineering at Twitter, is leaving along with head of products Bruce Falck.
Beykpour however said he was being expelled from the San Francisco-based tech company. “The truth is that this isn’t how and when I imagined leaving Twitter, and this wasn’t my decision,” Beykpour, who is on paternity leave, said in a tweet.
Twitter chief Parag Agrawal “asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction,” he added.
Twitter has also stated that from this week, they are pausing all hiring except for business-critical roles.
Musk’s $44-billion deal to buy Twitter was announced last month but still needs the backing of shareholders and regulators. The takeover is expected to close later in 2022.
Musk, who runs space exploration endeavor SpaceX and electric automaker Tesla is stepping in as its boss at least for a little while.
Musk has stated that he will be lifting the ban Twitter slapped on Donald Trump. He contended that kicking the former US president off the platform “alienated a large part of the country.”
After supporters were enraged by Trump’s tweets and speech alleging election fraud, they attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a violent attempt to prevent Joe Biden from being certified as the winner of the presidential election two months earlier.
Musk has given reason of his action of lifting ban from accounts. He said that permanent bans at Twitter should be rare, and reserved for accounts that are spam, scams or run by software “bots.”
Activist groups have called on Twitter advertisers to boycott the service if it opens the gates to abusive and misinformative posts with Musk as its owner.
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